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1This ChangeLog mostly lists changes relevant to users. A full log can be
2found in the bzr commit logs, for example you can try:
3
4http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/timeline?daysback=90&changeset=on
5
6Version 1.2.6:
7- Native (very basic) support for Twitter, implemented by Geert Mulders.
8  Currently supported are posting tweets, reading the ones of people you
9  follow, and sending (not yet receiving!) direct messages.
10- Fixed format of status messages in /WHOIS to improve IRC client
11  compatibility.
12- Show timestamps of offline messages/channel backlogs.
13- Allow saving MSN display names locally since sometimes this stuff breaks
14  server-side. (Use the local_display_name per-account setting.)
15- Suppress empty "Headline:" messages for certain new XMPP broadcast
16  messages.
17- Better handling of XMPP contacts with multiple resources on-line. Default
18  behaviour now is to write to wherever the last message came from, or to
19  the bare JID (usually becomes a broadcast) if there wasn't any recent msg.
20- Added a switchboard_keepalives setting which should solve some issues with
21  talking to offline MSN contacts. (Although full support for offline
22  messages is not ready yet!)
23- The usual misc. bug fixes.
24
25Finished 19 Apr 2010
26
27Version 1.2.5:
28- Many bug fixes, including a fix for MSN login issues, Jabber login timing
29  issues, Yahoo! crashes at login time with huge contact lists,
30- Avoid linking in a static version of libresolv now that glibc has all
31  relevant functions available in the dynamic version.
32- Improved away state code and added the ability to set (non-away) status
33  messages using "set status" (also possible per account) and see them in
34  blist and /whois output.
35- Added a post-1.2 equivalent of encode/decode to quickly encrypt/decrypt
36  passwords in a way that BitlBee can read them.
37- Allow using the full name for generating nicknames, instead of just the
38  handle. This is especially useful when using the Facebook XMPP server.
39- Auto reconnect is now enabled by default since all protocols can properly
40  detect cases where auto reconnect should be avoided (i.e. concurrent
41  logins).
42- Changed the default resource_select setting which should reduce message
43  routing issues on Jabber (i.e. messages going someone's phone instead of
44  the main client).
45
46Finished 17 Mar 2010
47
48Version 1.2.4:
49- Most important change (and main reason for releasing now): Upgraded Yahoo!
50  module to a newer version to get it working again.
51- join_chat command replaced with the much better chat command:
52  * Similar to how account replaced login/slist/logout. Add a chatroom once,
53    then just /join it like any other room. Also automatic joining at login
54    time is now possible.
55  * Note that the old way of starting groupchats (/join #nickname) is now
56    also deprecated, use "chat with" instead.
57  * See "help chat" and "help chat add" for more information.
58- Rewrote bitlbee.conf parser to be less dumb.
59- Fixed compatibility (hopefully) with AIM mobile messages, certain kinds
60  of Google Talk chatrooms.
61- Fixed numerous stability/reliability bugs over the last year.
62
63Finished 17 Oct 2009
64
65Version 1.2.3:
66- Fixed one more flaw similar to the previous hijacking bug, caused by incon-
67  sistent handling of the USTATUS_IDENTIFIED state. All code touching these
68  variables was reviewed and should be correct now.
69
70Finished 7 Sep 2008
71
72Version 1.2.2:
73- Security bugfix: It was possible to hijack accounts (without gaining access
74  to the old account, it's simply an overwrite)
75- Some more stability improvements.
76- Fixed bug where people with non-lowercase nicks couldn't drop their account.
77- Easier upgrades of non-forking daemon mode servers (using the DEAF
78  command).
79- Can be cross-compiled for Win32 now! (No support for SSL yet though, which
80  makes it less useful for now.)
81- Exponential backoff on auto-reconnect.
82- Changing passwords gives less confusing feedback ("password is empty") now.
83
84Finished 26 Aug 2008
85
86Version 1.2.1:
87- Fixed proxy support.
88- Fixed stalling issues while connecting to Jabber when using the OpenSSL
89  module.
90- Fixed problem with GLib and ForkDaemon where processes didn't die when
91  the client disconnects.
92- Fixed handling of "set charset none". (Which pretty much breaks the account
93  completely in 1.2.)
94- You can now automatically identify yourself to BitlBee by setting a server
95  password in your IRC client.
96- Compatible with all crazy kinds of line endings that clients can send.
97- Changed root nicknames are now saved.
98- Added ClientInterface setting to bind() outgoing connections to a specific
99  network interface.
100- Support for receiving Jabber chatroom invitations.
101- Relaxed port restriction of the Jabber module: added ports 80 and 443.
102- Preserving case in Jabber resources of buddies, since these should
103  officially be treated as case sensitive.
104- Fully stripping spaces from AIM screennames, this didn't happen completely
105  which severly breaks the IRC protocol.
106- Removed all the yellow tape around daemon mode, it's pretty mature by now:
107  testing.bitlbee.org serves all (~30) SSL users from one daemon mode
108  process without any serious stability issues.
109- Fixed GLib <2.6 compatibility issue.
110- Misc. memory leak/crash fixes.
111
112Finished 24 Jun 2008
113
114Version 1.2:
115- Added ForkDaemon mode next to the existing Daemon- and inetd modes. With
116  ForkDaemon you can run BitlBee as a stand-alone daemon and every connection
117  will run in its own process. No more need to configure inetd, and still you
118  don't get the stability problems BitlBee unfortunately still has in ordinary
119  (one-process) daemon mode.
120- Added inter-process/connection communication. This made it possible to
121  implement some IRC operator features like WALLOPs, KILL, DIE, REHASH and
122  more.
123- Added hooks for using libevent instead of GLib for event handling. This
124  should improve scalability, although this won't really be useful yet because
125  the one-process daemon mode is not reliable enough.
126- BitlBee now makes the buddy quits when doing "account off" look like a
127  netsplit. Modern IRC clients show this in a different, more compact way.
128  (This can be disabled if your client doesn't support this.)
129- GLib 1.x compatibility was dropped. BitlBee now requires GLib 2.4 or newer.
130  This allows us to use more GLib features (like the XML parser). By now GLib
131  1.x is so old that supporting it really isn't necessary anymore.
132- Many, many, MANY little changes, improvements, fixes. Using non-blocking
133  I/O as much as possible, replaced the Gaim (0.59, IOW heavily outdated)
134  API, fixed lots of little bugs (including bugs that affected daemon mode
135  stability). See the bzr logs for more information.
136- One of the user-visible changes from the API change: You can finally see
137  all away states/messages properly.
138- Added units tests. Test coverage is very minimal for now.
139- Better charset handling: Everything is just converted from/to UTF-8 right
140  in the IRC core, and charset mismatches are detected (if possible) and the
141  user is asked to resolve this before continuing. Also, UTF-8 is the default
142  setting now, since that's how the world seems to work these days.
143- One can now keep hashed passwords in bitlbee.conf instead of the cleartext
144  version.
145- Most important change: New file format for user data (accounts, nicks and
146  settings). Migration to the new format should happen transparently,
147  BitlBee will read the old files and once you quit/save it will save in the
148  new format. It is recommended to delete the old files (BitlBee doesn't do
149  this automatically, it will just ignore them) since they won't be used
150  anymore (and since the old file format is a security risk). Some advantages
151  of this file format switch:
152  * Safer format, since the identify-password is now salted before generating
153    a checksum. This way one can't use MD5 reverse lookup databases to crack
154    passwords. Also, the IM-account passwords are encrypted using RC4 instead
155    of the simple obfuscation scheme which BitlBee used so far.
156  * Easier to extend than the previous format (at least the .nicks format was
157    horribly limited).
158  * Nicknames for buddies are now saved per-account instead of per-protocol.
159    So far having one buddy on multiple accounts of the same protocol was a
160    problem because the nicks generated for the two "instances" of this buddy
161    were very unpredictable.
162    NOTE: This also means that "account del" removes not just the account,
163    BUT ALSO ALL NICKNAMES! If you're changing IM accounts and don't want to
164    lose the nicknames, you can now use "account set" to change the username
165    and password for the existing connection.
166  * Per-account settings (see the new "account set" command).
167- A brand new Jabber module. Besides the major code cleanup, it also has
168  has these new features:
169  * Pretty complete XMPP support: RFC3920, RFC3921 plus a number of XEPs
170    including XEP45, XEP73 and XEP85. (See http://www.xmpp.org/ for what all
171    these things mean exactly.) Privacy lists are not supported for obvious
172    reasons.
173  * This complete support also includes TLS and SASL support and SRV record
174    lookup. This means that specifying a server tag for connections should
175    (almost) never be necessary anymore, BitlBee can find the server and can
176    automatically convert plaintext connections to TLS-encrypted ones.
177  * XEP45: Jabber chatroom support!
178  * XEP85 means typing notifications. The older XEP22 (still used by some
179    clients including Gaim <2.0) is not supported.
180  * Better handling of buddies who have more than one resource on-line. As
181    long as one resource is on-line (and visible), BitlBee will show this.
182    (The previous module didn't keep track of resources and sent an offline
183    event as soon as any resource disappears.)
184  * You can now set your resource priority.
185  * The info command now gives away state/message information for all
186    resources available for that buddy. (Of course this only works if the
187    buddy is in your contact list.)
188  * An XML console (add xmlconsole to your contact list or see "help set
189    xmlconsole" if you want it permanently).
190- The Yahoo! module now says it supports YMSG protocol version 12, which will
191  hopefully keep the Yahoo module working after 2008-04-02 (when Yahoo! is
192  dropping support for version 6.x of their client).
193- MSN switchboard handling changes. Hopefully less messages will get lost now,
194  although things are still not perfect.
195
196Finished 17 Mar 2008
197
198Version 1.0.4:
199- Removed sethostent(), which causes problems for many people, especially on
200  *BSD. This is basically the reason for this release.
201- "allow" command actually displays the allow list, not the block list.
202- Yahoo away state/msg fix.
203- Don't display "Gender: Male" by default if nothing's filled in (OSCAR
204  "info" command)
205- Fixed account cleanup (possible infinite loop) in irc_free().
206- Fixed configdir error message to not always display the compile-time
207  setting.
208
209Finished 20 Aug 2007
210
211Version 1.0.3:
212- Fixed ugliness in block/allow list commands (still not perfect though, the
213  list is empty or not up-to-date for most protocols).
214- OSCAR module doesn't send the ICQ web-aware flag anymore, which seems to
215  get rid of a lot of ICQ spam.
216- added show_got_added(), BitlBee asks you, after authorizing someone, if you
217  want to add him/her to your list too.
218- add -tmp, mainly convenient if you want to talk to people who are not in
219  your list.
220- Fixed ISON command, should work better with irssi now.
221- Fixed compilation with tcc.
222- Fixed xinetd-file.
223- Misc. (crash)bug fixes, including one in the root command parsing that
224  caused mysterious error messages sometimes.
225
226Finished 24 Jun 2006 (Happy 4th birthday, BitlBee!)
227
228Version 1.0.2:
229- Pieces of code cleanup, fixes for possible problems in error checking.
230- Fixed an auto-reconnect cleanup problem that caused crashes in daemon mode.
231- /AWAY in daemon mode now doesn't set the away state for every connection
232  anymore.
233- Fixed a crash-bug on empty help subjects.
234- Jabber now correctly sets the current away state when connecting.
235- Added Invisible and Hidden to the away state alias list, invisible mode
236  should be pretty usable now.
237- Fixed handling of iconv(): It's now done for everything that goes between
238  BitlBee and the IRC client, instead of doing it (almost) every time
239  something goes to or come from the IM-modules. Should've thought about
240  that before. :-)
241- When cleaning up MSN switchboards with unsent msgs, it now also says which
242  contact those messages were meant for.
243- You can now use the block and allow commands to see your current block/
244  allow list.
245
246Finished 1 Apr 2006
247
248Version 1.0.1:
249- Support for AIM groupchats.
250- Improved typing notification support for at least AIM.
251- BitlBee sends a 005 reply when logging in, this informs modern IRC clients
252  of some of BitlBee's capabilities. This might also solve problems some
253  people were having with the new control channel name.
254- MSN switchboards are now properly reset when talking to a person who is
255  offline. This fixes problems with messages to MSN people that sometimes
256  didn't arrive.
257- Fixed one of the problems that made BitlBee show online Jabber people as
258  offline.
259- Fixed problems with commas in MSN passwords.
260- Added some consts for read-only data, which should make the BitlBee per-
261  process memory footprint a bit smaller.
262- Other bits of code cleanup.
263
264Finished 14 Jan 2006
265
266Version 1.0:
267- Removed some crashy debugging code.
268- QUIT command now works before logging in. (Mainly an RFC-compliancy fix.)
269- Hopefully slightly clearer handling of buddy add requests.
270- set buddy_sendbuffer_delay now also supports milisecond precision.
271- Renamed #bitlbee to &bitlbee to avoid confusion with the channel on OFTC.
272- Reviewed the xinetd file and installation instructions.
273- HTML stripping is configurable again.
274- Quit messages (at least on crashes) should appear again.
275- Cleaned up some unnecessary code in the Jabber module, and implemented
276  handlers for headline messages (which allows you to use RSS-to-Jabber
277  gateways).
278- Lowered the line splitting limit a bit to fix data loss issues.
279- The $proto($handle) format used for messages specific to one IM-connection
280  now only include the ($handle) part when there's more than one $proto-
281  connection.
282- Fix for a crash-bug on broken Jabber/SSL connections.
283- Incoming typing notifications now also come in as CTCP TYPING messages, for
284  better consistency. Don't forget to update your scripts!
285- AIM typing notifications are supported now.
286- Jabber module only accepts ports 5220-5229 now, to prevent people from
287  abusing it as a port scanner. We aren't aware of any Jabber server that
288  runs on other ports than those. If you are, please warn us.
289- Send flood protection can't be enabled anymore. It was disabled by default
290  for a good reason for some time already, but some package maintainers
291  turned it back on while it's way too unreliable and trigger-happy to be
292  used.
293- Removed TODO file, the current to-do list is always in the on-line bug
294  tracking system.
295- Fixed a potential DoS bug in input handling.
296
297Finished 4 Dec 2005
298
299Version 0.99:
300- Fixed memory initialization bug in OSCAR module that caused crashes on
301  closing the connection.
302- Most likely fixed the bug that caused BitlBee to use 100% CPU time in
303  some situations.
304- Outgoing MSN typing notifications are now understood correctly by the
305  orignal MS Mac/Windows clients (again).
306- Added "account add $protocol" to the documentation, got rid of a lot
307  of over-markup (i.e. overuse of bold-tags), reviewed some other parts.
308- Small changes to help.xsl to fix small flaws in the help.txt formatting.
309- Messaging yourself now doesn't make irssi or mIRC crash anymore.
310
311Finished 3 Nov 2005
312
313Version 0.93:
314- &quot; is now correctly converted to " instead of '.
315- Code cleanup in OSCAR module.
316- Some changes for better RFC-compliancy.
317- It's now possible to specify an alternate Jabber server.
318- bitlbee_save() now also checks the return value of fclose(), which might
319  solve more problems with lost account data.
320- Fixed a file descriptor leak in bitlbee.c.
321- Signedness fixes (mainly to keep GCC4 happy).
322- Away messages are now sent correctly to most ICQ clients.
323- BitlBee knows now which connection sends HTML, so it will strip HTML
324  automatically, "set html strip" is no longer necessary. Also, outgoing HTML
325  is escaped correctly.
326- info-command works for AIM-connections too now.
327- /notices to users will be sent as auto-away replies.
328- Messages about a connection now also mention a handle, for people who have
329  multiple accounts in use of the same protocol.
330- Examples are back in help.txt.
331
332Finished 31 Oct 2005
333
334Version 0.92:
335- Fixed some formatting issues with the help.txt XSL-sheet.
336- Moved the polling of the IRC connections to glib instead of a separate
337  select().
338- Added ctags generation to the Makefiles.
339- Sending a CTCP TYPING message to a user in your buddy list now sends a
340  typing notification to that person, if the protocol supports it. You
341  probably want to write/use a script for your IRC client to do this.
342- A dash is no longer considered a lowercase underscore in nicknames.
343- CTCP's to buddies no longer alter their private/non-private state.
344- Clean shutdown (with saving settings) on SIGTERM.
345- Fixed a crash on connecting to unreachable Jabber/SSL servers.
346- On ICQ, offline messages are now requested after receiving the buddy
347  list. This should get rid of the "Message from unknown OSCAR handle"
348  messages on login.
349- The linked list of buddies/nicks is now always sorted, which makes the
350  blist output a bit more useful.
351- Fixed a crash on renaming NickServ. (There's no reason to do this, but
352  still crashing isn't really how BitlBee should tell you that. ;-)
353- Now the message about the "new" ICQ server-side buddy lists is only
354  displayed when the server-side list is still empty.
355- The Yahoo! markup language stripper is now less likely to strip things
356  that shouldn't be stripped.
357- Working around a shortcoming in the Yahoo! cleanup code that didn't
358  cause any serious problems in previous versions, but got pretty nasty
359  (100% CPU time usage) now with everything in the glib main loop.
360- Fixed a bug in http_encode that might have caused buffer overflows
361  (although not likely to be exploitable) when trying to encode strings
362  with non-ASCII characters.
363- Fixed AIM screenname handling on ICQ connections.
364- When blocking someone, the MSN module now closes the conversation you're
365  having with him/her (if any) so he/she can't continue talking to you
366  (for as long as the conversation lasts).
367- Away messages are only sent when messaging someone outside the control
368  channel. (And now also when the user is offline instead of just away.)
369- Moved charset conversion in serv_buddy_rename() to the right place so
370  bogus changes are always detected now.
371- iso8859-1 is now the default charset because -15 caused some problems
372  and because -1 is enough for most people anyway.
373- Fixed crashes on attempting to add a buddy (or do other things) on
374  connections that are still initializing.
375- Added support for server-side notifies using the WATCH command.
376- IRC_MAX_ARGS is dead, at least for IRC commands.
377- Fixed a bug that made BitlBee crash on failing fresh MSN switchboard
378  connections.
379- Fixed an invisibility bug in the MSN code that handled transfers to
380  other servers in the middle of a session.
381- Newline stripping added to prevent newline-in-friendlyname attacks.
382  (Which allowed remote people to make BitlBee send raw custom IRC lines.)
383
384Finished 23 Feb 2005
385
386Version 0.91:
387- Full support for ICQ server-side contact lists!
388  NOTE: BitlBee now ignores your client-side contact list. If you want to
389        import your ICQ contact list, use the import_buddies command.
390- Added the import_buddies command for upgrading purposes.
391- Added support for OpenSSL.
392- Fixed one major problem with the daemon mode by getting rid of the global
393  IRC structure.
394- Documentation fixes. help.txt is now generated from XML. Also updated the
395  installation manual.
396- Made the quickstart up-to-date. (By Elizabeth Krumbach)
397- Some bitlbeed additions. (By Marcus Dennis)
398- info-command support for Jabber, MSN, Yahoo! and a more verbose info-reply
399  for ICQ. (By Frank Thieme)
400- Support for Jabber over SSL.
401- nick_get() appends a _ on duplicates instead of chopping off the last
402  character.
403- Got rid of an unused piece of code that caused crashes.
404  (oscar.c:gaim_parse_clientauto)
405- When splitting long messages into 450-char chunks, BitlBee now tries not
406  to cut off in the middle of a line.
407- Added a warning when the user specifies an unknown OSCAR server.
408- Removed GLib 2.x dependency, BitlBee will work with GLib 1.x again.
409- Improved strip_html(), now less likely to strip non-HTML things.
410- An invalid account-command will now display an error message.
411- Fixed a bug that caused crashes when /CTCP'ing a groupchat channel.
412- Hopefully better Unicode/non-ASCII support for ICQ.
413- Fixed MSN connection crash on non-ASCII characters in screenname.
414- Added some missing charset conversion calls. (serv_got_crap,
415  serv_buddy_rename)
416- "account off" without extra arguments now logs off all connections.
417- Fixed a crash-bug on disconnecting Yahoo! connections before they're fully
418  connected.
419- Fixed a bug in helpfile handling which sometimes caused crashes in daemon
420  mode.
421- block and allow commands work with just a nick as an argument again.
422- Working around a crash on some probably invalid Yahoo! packets.
423- Fixed a possible double free() on shutdown in irc_free().
424- Talking to ICQ people on AIM and vice versa and talking to people with
425  @mac.com accounts now possible.
426- Low ASCII chars are now stripped from away-messages so the Jabber module
427  won't barf on BitchX and lame-script away messages anymore.
428
429Finished 25 Sep 2004
430
431Version 0.90a:
432- Fixed the Yahoo! authentication code.
433
434Finished 28 Jun 2004
435
436Version 0.90:
437- A complete rewrite of the MSN module. This gives BitlBee the following
438  new features/improvements:
439  * You can now start groupchats with MSN people without having to send them
440    a bogus message first.
441  * People who are in your MSN block/allow list, but not in your contact
442    list, shouldn't show up in your BitlBee buddy lists anymore.
443  * Passport authentication shouldn't lock up the whole program for a couple
444    of seconds anymore. Additionally, it should also work behind proxies now.
445  * Better recognition of incoming file transfers; they're now recognized
446    when coming from non-English MS Messenger clients too.
447  * Fixed a problem with MSN passwords with non-alphanumeric characters.
448  * Mail notification support (also for Yahoo!)...
449  * Parsing of maintenance messages (ie "Server is going down in x minutes").
450  * Hopefully more stability.
451- Changes in the OSCAR module:
452  * Better reading of ICQ-away-states.
453  * Lots of cleanups.
454- Yahoo! module:
455  * Fixed authentication on 64-bit machines. (Patch from Matt Rogers)
456  * Better stripping of markup tags.
457- Lots of cleanup in all IM-modules.
458- Added support for using libnss instead of libgnutls.
459- Reverse hostname lookups work on IPv6 sockets too now. (And don't crash
460  the program anymore.)
461- Fixed a little problem with identifying right after registering a nick.
462- Restored complete proxy support and added a proxy setting to the conffile.
463- BitlBee can now tell you when people in your buddy list change their
464  "friendly name".
465- Instead of an account number, you can also specify the protocol name or
466  (part of) the username as an account identification with commands like
467  "account on", "add", etc.
468- BitlBee remembers what connection a question (i.e. authorization request)
469  belongs to and cleans it up when the connection goes down; this fixes
470  (one of) the last known crash bugs.
471- Plus some other changes in question management. (The query_order setting
472  is one of them. The default behaviour changed a bit, for more information
473  please read "help set query_order".)
474- Also fixed a memory management bug in the question code which caused some
475  crashes.
476- Optimized some nick handling functions and added a hash of all the users
477  to speed up user_find() a bit (especially good for people with large
478  buddy and notify lists).
479- Lots of changes for the Win32 port (see http://jelmer.vernstok.nl/).
480- Added the drop-command.
481- Fixed small problem with versions of sed which don't support the +
482  "operator" (the BSD version, for example, even though the operator is
483  documented properly in the re_format manpage...).
484- Added the default_target setting.
485- Added a CenterICQ2BitlBee conversion script.
486- Put back the evaluator for "set charset" (which got lost somewhere between
487  0.84 and 0.85), so an incorrect charset will be rejected again.
488- ISON now (A) gives one single reply and (B) also replies when none of the
489  persons asked for are on-line.
490- Using GConv instead of iconv now.
491- Incoming messages larger than 450 characters are now split into parts
492  before sending them to the user.
493- Fixed a bug in irc_exec() which could crash the program when some commands
494  were called with too little arguments.
495- Fixed a dumb NULL pointer dereference in the JOIN command.
496- Added rate limiting to bitlbeed. (Against server hammering)
497- Added handling of CTCP PINGs (yet another self-ping used by some IRC
498  clients...)
499- Added bitlbee_tab_completion.pl.
500- Removed the vCard handling code from Jabber because it's (A) not used and
501  (B) had a possible format string vulnerability.
502- Got rid of strcpy() in account.c. (Thanks to NETRIC for reporting these two
503  problems.)
504- ISO8859-15 is now the default charset.
505
506Finished 21 May 2004
507
508Version 0.85a:
509- Fixed an authentication problem with logging into some MSN accounts.
510- Removed a non-critical warning message from the ICQ servers when logging
511  in with an empty contact list.
512- Fixed reading the [defaults] section of bitlbee.conf.
513- The last newline in outgoing messages when using the buddy_sendbuffer is
514  now removed correctly.
515- Yahoo! colour/font tag stripping now actually works.
516- Fixed compilation on *BSD and some Linux architectures.
517
518Finished 24 Mar 2004
519
520Version 0.85:
521- Users can specify alternate configuration files/directories at runtime
522  now.
523- Rename now doesn't choke on name changes with only case changes anymore.
524- Imported the daemon patch into the main source tree. The daemon mode is
525  still experimental, this just eases maintenance. This daemon patch brings
526  a lot of features, including (as the name says) a real daemon mode and
527  also buffering of the data sent to the user, and flood protection.
528- Strips font and colour codes from Yahoo! messages.
529- Support for groupchats on Yahoo!
530- Fixed removing Yahoo! buddies from a different group than "Buddies".
531- Jabber presence packets with error messages are interpreted correctly now.
532  (They used to be parsed as a signin.)
533- bitlbee_save() checks return values from fprintf() and writes to tempfiles
534  first to make sure no old files get lost when there's a write error.
535- ICQ buddies are added all at once instead of once at a time. This should
536  solve problems with huge buddy lists.
537- Made the client pinging timings configurable. (Without requiring
538  recompilation)
539- MSN and Yahoo flag the connection as "wants_to_die" when they're logged
540  off because of a concurrent login. This means reconnection will be disabled
541  on concurrent logins.
542- BitlBee can now buffer the messages sent to someone before they're actually
543  sent, and wait for a specified number of seconds for more lines to be added
544  to the buffer before the message will really be sent.
545- Renamed the reconnect_delay setting to auto_reconnect_delay.
546- Unknown settings aren't saved anymore.
547
548Finished 13 Mar 2004
549
550Version 0.84:
551- Removed the libsoup dependency.
552- Fixed AuthMode=Registered: It will now restore your accounts when
553  identifying.
554- Fixed Yahoo! support.
555- Fixed a little memory leak in user.c.
556- Fixed a security bug in unused code in proxy.c, only people who use
557  the HTTP proxy support and an untrusted proxy might need this. We
558  haven't done an emergency release for this fix because proxy support
559  is disabled by default.
560- Fixed some memory leaks in IM-code.
561
562Finished 13 Feb 2004
563
564Version 0.83:
565- Fixed a crash bug on connecting to unsupported accounts.
566- Fixed a problem with connecting to MSN accounts with empty buddy
567  lists.
568- Fixed another inifite-loop bug in nick_get() and added a piece
569  of code which detects the infinite loop and asks the user to send
570  a bug report.
571- Fixed iconv-Solaris linking issues.
572- Fixed all the problems with spaces in AIM screennames now, we hope.
573- Fixed a buffer overflow in the nick handling code. Buffers are
574  overflowed with static data (nulls), so we don't think it's exploitable.
575- Added server-client pinging, useful for remote servers.
576- Added the hostname setting.
577- Some bitlbeed changes.
578- Added a little part to the on-line quickstart about the settings and
579  other help topics, this hopefully answers a lot of FAQ's.
580- Fixed the signal handler to re-raise the signal after the handler quits.
581  This makes sure the default handler is called after our handler sends
582  the user a bye-message, so core dumps are created and the parent will
583  get more useful information back from wait().
584- Added support for ICQ URL messages.
585- Fixed strip_html() behaviour on unknown &entities;.
586- Fixed a possible problem with Yahoo!
587- Fixed a problem with logging into more than one MSN account at once.
588
589Finished 31 Dec 2003
590
591Version 0.82:
592- Fixed a little bug in nick.c which could cause a complete hang for
593  some tricky buddylists. (Thanks to Geert Hauwaerts for helping with
594  fixing this bug)
595- Fixed MSN support. (Lots of thanks to Wouter Paesen!)
596- Removed the old login/logout commands.
597- Added the qlist command.
598- Fixed a buffer overflow in the nick checking code. (Thanks to Jon
599  Åslund for pointing us at this problem)
600- Adds the add_private and add_channel options for set handle_unknown.
601- Some documentation updates.
602- Added two small utilities to encode/decode BitlCrypted files.
603
604Finished 31 Oct 2003
605
606Version 0.81a:
607- This version just fixes some small things we should've fixed before
608  releasing 0.81:
609- Fixed a small bug in the auto-reconnect cleanup code.
610- Fixed the Makefile: Now it doesn't just overwrite your etc files when
611  installing.
612- Fixed the Makefile: $prefix/etc/bitlbee/ is the default etcdir now.
613- Disabling MSN by default, now that it doesn't work. It'll be back on
614  as soon as we get the module working again.
615
616Finished 16 Oct 2003
617
618Version 0.81:
619- Added a configuration file.
620- Added support for the PASS command to restrict access to the daemon to
621  only the people who know this password.
622- Only allowing registered people to use the daemon is possible too.
623- In case you, at some time, need to check the currently running BitlBee
624  version, just CTCP-VERSION someone in the channel.
625- Added the auto_connect setting for people who don't want the program
626  to connect to IM-networks automatically.
627- Extended the blist command.
628- Applied the auto-reconnect patch from G-Lite.
629- Applied the iconv patch from Yuri Pimenov.
630- Imported the MSN-friendlyname patch from Wouter Paesen.
631- Away-message aliasing code now just parses the beginning of the string,
632  not the whole string. This allows you to have a more descriptive away
633  message like "Busy - Fixing bugs in BitlBee" and all the IM connections
634  will have a busy-like away-state.
635- Added some information about away states to the help system.
636- MSN file transfers aren't silently ignored anymore.
637- Integrated the Yahoo protocol fix from Cerulean Studios (Trillian).
638  (Thanks to Tony Perrie!)
639- Made all protocol plugins optional. (Patch from Andrej Kacian/Ticho)
640
641Finished 15 Oct 2003
642
643Version 0.80:
644- Fixed a very stupid bug in the MSN away-state reading.
645- nick_cmp() now actually works, RFC-compliant.
646- Fixed and cleaned up the away-state handling, there were some very
647  weird things in the original Gaim code base which broke this completely
648  all the time.
649- The daemon prevents you from using root/NickServ as your nick now,
650  previous versions crashed on that.
651- At last ... GROUP CHAT SUPPORT! :-D
652- People who are *not* away get mode +v in #bitlbee now, so you can see
653  in /names who's away and who's not.
654- Crashing BitlBee by using the NICKSERV command without any arguments
655  is impossible now.
656- Added some notes about Darwin/OSX portability.
657- Separated connections from accounts. This means restoring a lost
658  connection can be done using a simple "account on <number>" command.
659  See "help account" for more information.
660  *** For now this won't cause problems when upgrading because the login
661  command still exists (as an alias for "account add"). This alias will
662  not stay forever, though.
663- irc_process() now makes sure it reads the whole available buffer before
664  executing the commands. Previous versions were very bad at handling
665  long floods from non-floodprotected clients. The code is still not
666  perfect, but good enough for local links.
667- Allow/Deny questions from msn.c now also mention your own screenname.
668  This is useful for people who run two (or even more) MSN accounts in
669  one BitlBee.
670- Fixed a little bug in the helpfile-changed-check code.
671- A little trick in "make install" makes sure the help function in running
672  sessions doesn't break while upgrading.
673- Added a nifty (and editable) MOTD.
674- Added IRIX to the compatibility list.
675- Added support for Cygwin.
676- Better HTML-stripping, it also handles &entities; correctly now.
677- Fixed some problems to make it compile on Solaris.
678- Added support for messages from Miranda/Mac ICQ. (Code port from Gaim 0.59)
679- Fixed the crash problem when removing yahoo buddies.
680- Added the handle_unknown setting.
681- Did some editing on a few docs.
682- Added a FAQ.
683- Added the daemon-patch by Maurits Dijkstra which adds stand-alone daemon
684  support to BitlBee.
685- Jabber now doesn't barf on high ASCII characters in away messages anymore.
686  (Thanks to Christian Häggström <chm@c00.info>)
687
688Finished 24 Jun 2003
689
690Version 0.74a:
691- The music-festivals-are-bad-for-your-mind release.
692- This one actually contains the fix for the bug 0.74 claimed to have.
693
694Finished 11 Jun 2003
695
696Version 0.74:
697- Fixed a security leak, where using a / in the nickname causes the saved
698  settings and account information to be stored in undesirable places.
699
700Finished 10 Jun 2003
701
702Version 0.73:
703- Fixed the unable-to-remove-icq-users (actually users from any *local*
704  contact list) bug.
705- Fixed away bug in aim protocol.
706- Fixed the 'statistics' under the blist command output.
707- Removed the commands from the XML documentation because they're 'on-line'
708  already.
709- Added some signal handling; ignoring SIGPIPE should als get rid of some
710  crashes (for some weird reason this has to be done). Also, crashes because
711  of things like segfaults are a bit more verbose now. ;-)
712- Changed the select() timeout in main(), this might improve some latencies.
713  (At leasts it speeds up signing on (especially for ICQ) a lot!)
714- Made the own-QUIT messages more compliant, probably.
715- Fixed some memory-bugs, thanks to valgrind.
716- irc_write() now checks the write() return value, and tries to send the rest
717  of the string, if it could not write it completely the first time.
718- Hostname lookups also work on NetBSD now.
719  (Thanks to David.Edmondson*sun*com (hi spambot))
720- At last, a new protocol. Welcome to ... YAHOO!
721- Documentation and code cleanup. Somehow the helpfile documented register
722  and identify twice, now that's what I call over-documenting.. :-/
723- Added the rename command to the helpfile, somehow I forgot that one.
724- Been a bit pedantic about compiler warnings. They're all dead now.
725- Fixed a small Makefile problem which gave an error when a clean tree was
726  "made distclean"
727- Fixed a (possible) memory leak in nogaim.c:proto_away()
728- Fixed the way proto_away() calls proto_away_alias_find(), now it gives
729  the *whole* list of away states
730- proto_away() doesn't give a NULL message anymore because AIM didn't like
731  that
732- Got rid of the last goto in my code (without ruining the code)
733- Created a more samba-like compiling process (without the complete command
734  lines, just a simple echo)
735- "help set ops" works now too, without quoting the "set ops"
736- Trying to log in with a protocol without a prpl (ICQ and TOC, for example)
737  made previous versions crash
738
739Finished 13 Apr 2003
740
741Version 0.72:
742- Updated the documentation.
743- Improved the MSN friendlyname code. (Although it doesn't seem to be perfect
744  yet..)
745- info-command added to get more information about ICQ users.
746- blist-command added to get a complete buddy list.
747- Fixed a bug which broke the AIM code when adding a screenname with a space
748  in it.
749- Added the NS alias for the NICKSERV command (Tony Vroon).
750- Fixed the USERHOST command implementation (Tony Vroon).
751- /me from IM-networks is now converted to a CTCP ACTION correctly.
752- Added an utils/ directory with some misc toys and handy things.
753- Added a /notice to the on_typing event. Don't use it though, the /notice
754  flood will just be a big annoyance. ;-)
755- Some people like root and themself to be ops, some don't. Now it's
756  configurable. (set ops)
757- Now the umode stuff actually works. Next step: Use those modes... (How?)
758
759Finished 19 Dec 2002
760
761Version 0.71:
762- Fixed the help command output layout (alignment)
763- Added a sample xinetd file
764- Cleaned up, 0.70 released with a build-stamp and DEADJOE file (oops)..
765- Messages can be sent like '<user>, <message>' in the control channel now,
766  instead of just '<user>: <message>'
767- Added a debug setting boolean: Set it to true for some debugging crap
768  which used to be on by default..
769- Changed the /whois reply: In the server section you now see the
770  connection this user belongs to.
771- Added some root/permission checks.
772- configure script works correctly when the terminating / is forgotten for
773  a directory.
774- Fixed format string bug in protocols/oscar/meta.c (Hmm, what's the use of
775  that file?)
776- Added '#include "crypting.h"' to commands.c to get rid of stupid warnings
777- Fixed crash-bug (SIGSEGV when adding an @-less contact to MSN/Jabber)
778- Added to_char setting
779- Fixed bug in set.c: It ignored the new value returned by the evaluator
780  :-(
781- Removed protocol tag from 'hostname' in user hostmask because this info
782  is in /whois' server section now
783- Added the GPL. Somehow 0.7 released without a COPYING file.. :-/
784- Enhanced the root_command() parser, you can 'quote' "arguments" now so
785  arguments can be strings with spaces
786- Debugging versions have True as the default value for set debug
787- NICKSERV is now an alternative for PRIVMSG root. This does not affect
788  functionality of current NICKSERV commands, but does allow people to just
789  do identify <pass> in channel.
790- NICKSERV REGISTER now doesn't try to log you in (to check if the user
791  exists) but checks for the existence of the user-configuration files.
792- NICKSERV SET password now works (as does set password in channel). This
793  makes changing your password possible.
794- NICKSERV password now stored in irc_t.
795- ./configure now only bugs you about possible problems with strip if it's
796  actually going to strip (wooohoooo! _sexy_ :)
797- Fixed a load of warnings in oscar.c, irc.c, nick.c and set.c
798- Split up root_command() into a version which eats raw strings and one
799  which eats split strings
800- New help system: Help available for most (all?) commands, all read from
801  an external help-file.
802- Changed the maximum message length in irc_usermsg() from IRC_MAX_LINE to
803  1024 (for loooong help messages..).
804- Only allow user to set supported umodes.
805- Fixed a memory leak in crypting.c (Thanks to Erik Hensema.)
806- Added a send_handler callback to user_t. Needed for the following entry:
807- Added the NickServ user as a root-clone.
808- Disabled tcpd by default because it's just a PITA for a lot of systems
809  and because you can use /usr/sbin/tcpd as well.
810- The root user can be renamed now.
811
812Finished 16 Sep 2002
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